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I haven't looked at hoppers for several years, this looks pretty cool. But I'm curious why there was nothing on feedrates, reliability and not a single test shot string on a marker.

At $185 is it made in the USA or China? That would be the big sell point for me.

No doubt made in china like the rest, thought they would of undercut the price of a rotor
Thing looks fugly I'll be sticking with my rotor.
It does kinda annoy me the price they charge for cheap plastic moldings

I wouldn't buy one because it is next to impossible to get a hold of anyone at Virtue lately. I was trying to get a board fixed and I sent a dozen emails and tried to call more than I emailed and I could never get anyone. I used to swear by Virtue products but now I don't trust them.

If those videos were the best idea Virtue can come up with, the marketing team need a swift kick up the arse. That promo was so lame, poorly produced and stupid I am stunned to be honest. If they are seriously expecting players to part with 185 bucks, they need to try a lot harder to sell the product in the first place.

As far as I'm concerned they can stick it where the sun don't shine, and I'll carry on using my tried and 'properly' tested Rotor, Halo's, Empire Reloaders, Vlocity etc..

The things that impressed me in the videos I posted was the hopper being submurged under water and still running and being shot by a shotgun. It was nice seeing a hopper take an impact like that and not crack or break. I am sure if it was a halo there would be cracks all in it. I will agree, every single thing else in the video was pathetic. I would of loved to of seen my dalmation tear into the hopper though, now that would of been a good test.

Well...I watched the vids, looked over the website...and come to the conclusion that this must feed 1 ball every hour and a half. They certainly haven't pushed the speed capabilities of their product and have completely glossed over that entire subject so one must conclude that their product is slow.

I bought my halo when they first came out and were geared instead of a belt for 150ish iirc, a few weeks later I sent it back to them and had it converted to belt drive and red shells. That put the total over 175$ and that was 10 or more years ago. I still have it, all original and its my main hopper. I just replaced the shells a couple months back. I see no point in these new hoppers boasting 30+ bps when almost all tournies these days are capped somewhere between 12.5 and 15bps. Ill stick with my halo.

Agree, they missed a good opportunity to 1) market the thing correctly, and 2) undercut the price of a Rotor. Of course, the Rotor only has 2 pitfalls - how loud it is when it's out of paint, and the price. It looks like the Spire fixed the "sounds like a jet taking off when out of paint" with different loading logic. But they failed on the price.

Take that, along with the fact that you can't see anything with regard to durability and actual performance, and I've come up with the conclusion that I will NOT be an early adopter. I'll wait until someone makes a true Spire vs. Rotor test and posts it up on YouTube. Actually, DYE might want to do that....

Yeah I must agree with most everyone in here. I'm not impressed. Ill stick with the rotor. But there are videos on youtube of them being used on markers one of which they claim to be running it up to 30bps... or so they say.

No. Someone said that the white one looks like a speed boat. I agree. And I don't like it.

If the performance was there and the price was LESS than a Rotor, I would probably buy in. Looks aren't that important if the thing works. But the way it is now, it's 0-for-3. Price too high, no video showing its performance, and its ugly.

And we still don't know anything about the durability, but I'm shying away from that lid/cover because it looks like the brittle pieces of plastic found in some versions of hoppers. Maybe it's not brittle, but they don't do anything to let you know otherwise.

The things that impressed me in the videos I posted was the hopper being submurged under water and still running and being shot by a shotgun. It was nice seeing a hopper take an impact like that and not crack or break. I am sure if it was a halo there would be cracks all in it. I will agree, every single thing else in the video was pathetic. I would of loved to of seen my dalmation tear into the hopper though, now that would of been a good test.

Yeah.. now you mention it. I forgot just how often I've been playing underwater while being peppered with shotgun pellets. Or been mobbed by bacon frenzied dogs and chickens on the field, and thought to myself... I really wish I could find a hopper that could handle this